Emotion and meaning in music

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Página 66Just before number 77 (Eulenberg, miniature score) there is a perfectly regular
cadcntial progression, II-I* -V, in E-flat major, which in a piece written a hundred
years earlier would lead us to expect the tonic chord. Here, however, it leads us
to ...

Página 179This is made amply clear by an examination, for instance, of Piston's "Table of
Usual Root Progressions" (see p. 54). The most decisive progression of all in the
delineation of tonality, the one from the subdominant to the dominant to the tonic,
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Página 214As Strangways has put it: "A tonic is a tendency rather than a fact." " That is, some
of the tones of the system are active. They tend to move toward the more stable
points in the system — the structural or substantive tones. But activity and rest ...